Laravel transformer vs resource

Question

I am little bit confused about the difference between Laravel eloquent resource and transformers. When i should use resource and when i should use transformers. Did some research on it from laravel documentation and medium article but its look like same purpose.

May be i have wrong concept about that. Any knowledge share from anyone will be appreciate.

it looks like `Transformer` is a third-party package,in the other hand, `Resources` is official — Hussein, Sep 18 '18 at 05:02
can you share with us some hints? what are you actually getting confuse?. — Nazmul Hasan, Sep 30 '18 at 11:04

score 30 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '18 at 13:20

Laravel Eloquent API Resource was released on Laravel 5.5.

Before this feature exists officially, there was a package from spatie called spatie/laravel-fractal that's a wrap for league/fractal.

Both packages archives the same objective with different approach.

I prefer using the Eloquent API Resource since it's embedded on Laravel, so I reduce one (direct) dependency.

Note: The medium article uses the Fractal package, but this article is very superficial, you can find more detailed instructions on spatie/laravel-fractal, it you decide to use it.

awesome. thanks for your answer. i was looking for that. – Emtiaz Zahid Oct 26 '18 at 16:12 — Emtiaz Zahid, Oct 26 '18 at 16:12

score -6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '18 at 13:13

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Found this on a google search below your post:

You build out each "transformer" (which would be the equivalent of a "resource"), with the ability to include or not include whichever relationships you want solely based off the of request URL.

answered Oct 26 '18 at 13:13

David Valenza

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That's not the OP question, he asked the difference between using Laravel API Resource and Fractal Transformers. – Elias Soares Oct 26 '18 at 13:21

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